Tinder is a proprietary privacy nightmare that requires one’s Facebook data for functionality. It even has its very own analytics library just to enhance the Orwellian tracking.
You don’t want any of that.
If you’re searching for a partner or a lover, Alovoa is the better corner of the internet to find one. It’s private, secure, and vitally open-source.
You can find the service’s source code here.
Alovoa has an Android and iOS app. Here is the native Android app. Its source code can be found here.
The native Android app was released fairly recently in late October last year, and appeared on F-Droid some days ago. If you encounter any bugs, report them in the Issues section of its GitHub repository.
I’m not the developer.
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The fact that anyone using this app is (probably) conscious about privacy and/or Free software makes for an interesting filter.
Interesting. I had to chuckle though at the fact that the same people appear over and over again on their website with the title “Meet new, exciting people!”…
requires one’s Facebook data for functionality
No, I’ve used it recently, doesn’t require Facebook. At least in the US. It has the option to log in that way, sure, so do many services.
But otherwise you’re right that it’s a privacy nightmare.
Anyone installed this in London? Is there anyone there?
Most likely. London is a huge metropolis.
It has one woman in London 🥺
You could be the one to date her. 😊
Give it time, dear. Tinder and OKCupid didn’t start out with millions of people. If we all give up on Alovoa because “nobody uses it”, we’ll never have a private alternative to the horrors out there.
Like Mastodon is to Twitter, or Lemmy to Reddit, this is our chance to create something big for years to come, together.
@ostrich I did create an account, everyone was, like, thousands of km away. Sadly, it won’t cut for me, even though I don’t like Tinder’s data collection. Guess that for some services it’s either them or nothing.
If you’re going to create an alternative, you’ll have to start somewhere, I guess. Especially FOSS projects without real funds for ads in ad networks, etc. Things like that only grow slowly, if at all.
That’s why I like the federation approach, like with this Lemmy instance. It’s small and maybe it’s not gonna take off, but users will still recieve fresh content from other instances, so yeah…
@NettoHikari Indeed, yea. But if you really are constrained geographically then it’s less useful for the purpose, haha.
To compare it with the Fediverse - I knew nobody in my country on the Fediverse when I created my account here on Friendica. I just wanted to have a place where I would finally move away from Facebook - with the same goal of socializing with people wherever they might be. And too little people I personally know went here as well. Yet, I stayed because I wasn’t constrained geographically to find people (I’m not sure you’re anywhere close to Romania right now, haha).
But the purpose of a dating app is not just talking with others, if you know what I mean 😉 . So yea, I do hope it will take off, I’m glad it exists, but it is surely a bigger challenge 😁
@[email protected] The only problem is that there’s barely much people around my area which for me feels sort of pointless, even though I wish I can be away of such apps that obsessed with tracking my data
That’s the more reason to stick with Alovoa. The network effect will make it better. Tinder started out this way, too.
Internet dating is like the light from poltergeist. Don’t look at the light, don’t go into the light.
Even if it’s open source, it’s still bad for your soul.
I read an article a while back about how one DM on Twitter led to a happy marriage. The correspondents had no prior relationship. Just a curious DM. I’m not endorsing the use of Twitter here, especially for dating.
Dating isn’t always about marriage, though, and dating platforms are also about… casual sex. Yup. One-night stands. A lot of magic can happen via online dating once the connection is there. I don’t see it as inherently bad or evil.
A lot of very personal information is exchanged on these type of sites, so it’s very, very important it’s a private AND secure platform.
